I thought it was some TPM thing

My rig is not that impressive, i9 with 4070 what sucks is the ram is locked for some reason at 2400mhz even if I buy ram that is faster than that so idk. I swear it that was the specific cpu (10th gen)

I did go through a bunch of steps checking trying to get it to work, stuff in bios enabling settings

I think the TPM lives in the mobo somewhere. Might as well reuse the HDD, SSD, GPU, PSU, and chassis

Good point, find same size/socket

You can have my Windows 10 from my cold dead hands ha